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Janet Aitch Feb 2019
Why so easy
to procrastinate
when I'm happier
doing it
Janet Aitch Sep 2018
Subtle changes
in green of leaves
heralds
autumn's
vibrant splendour
Janet Aitch Jan 2020
When you head up the ***** of the Kirkstone Pass,
so-called for the rock, a glacier's erratic,
that's shaped like a chapel and stands at the head
of the steeply-raked pass

There's a place where the valley far down below you
splits either side of the hill, called 'The Tongue'
Way below is a farm at the tip of 'The Tongue'
from this height, so tiny, it looks like a toy

Be careful!  Don't go to the edge of the roadway
or your fall will be sharp and you might not survive
Drive on, up the twisting ascent of the mountain
until, near the summit, you spot Kirkstone Inn

It's built at the junction of the pass and 'The Struggle'-
the latter a test of a new driver's skill-
its car park a stop for walkers and drivers,
its promise of welcome a tangible call

What a wonderful feeling of warmth as you enter
You're inside, enjoying a favorite brew
Check up on the map, now decide where you're going,
then say your adieus and be back on the road
Janet Aitch May 2017
Bath taps turned off
In sudden silence
Hear soap squish
Janet Aitch Feb 2020
I sit listening
looking through the scaffolding
hearing builders' din
Janet Aitch Jun 2017
Hello! You alright?
Yes thanks, yourself?
Fine
Cheerio
Move on
Janet Aitch Apr 2019
Blank pages
invite writing
but I have only
unimaginative minutes
Janet Aitch Oct 2019
"The length of a lyric"
the writer explained
over a cup
of what looked like tea
"depends on eroding
a concept held dearly
down to its heartwood
to let it sing free"
Janet Aitch Dec 2020
“The square on the hypotenuse
is equal to the sum of the squares
on the other two sides”
I look at the triangle
and ponder the meaning
of that strange word hypotenuse
my skin getting goosebumps
and my breath all excited
when I should be applying the rule
to the problem
the geometry teacher
expects me to solve
Janet Aitch Dec 2020
Seated, crossed legs forming triangles
your breath coming gently, evenly
feeling comfortable in your skin
you ponder strange mystical words
Janet Aitch Nov 2018
I've heard of a number
but that's a new one
Janet Aitch Sep 2019
Rain sheeting
as forecaster says
"Showers over Cumbria have cleared"
Janet Aitch Feb 2019
A lovely sunny day
shows up dust
wherever you look
Janet Aitch Oct 2017
Box Lids
belong on boxes
On walls
they look
undressed
Janet Aitch Mar 2020
The Roofer
tapped a slate
tenderly
looked up
said "Hi"
Janet Aitch Feb 2019
No
But
No buts
Why
Because I said so
But..
Janet Aitch Aug 2017
Wild raspberries
Glow richly red
in the hedgerow
Taste wonderful
Janet Aitch Dec 2019
Hai Ku who are you?
Japanese form, poem true
May I write one too?
Janet Aitch Nov 2017
Pictures gone
Slabs
Of uncoordinated colour
Leap out at me
Janet Aitch Aug 2019
You can see the headlines
"Bronze superstar switches beaches"
from cloudy Britain
to hot sunny Tropez
Everything's news to someone
Janet Aitch Jan 2020
Blueberry Friday
today adds fancy biscuits
Breaking tradition
Janet Aitch Sep 2019
An observed word
infrequently heard
can isolate
or implicate
the visionary
thin with worry
in a dastardly plot
which will get him shot
Janet Aitch Aug 2017
Wrestling with words
Forgot water heater
Late rising
Late everything
Janet Aitch May 2017
No poem today
Fine day
No worries
Why no poem?
Janet Aitch Oct 2017
Torn jeans
and box - top paintings
mock poverty's needs
and aspirations
Janet Aitch Feb 2020
It's possible to make poems
about almost anything
but like most things in life
there's more to it than that
What is a rhyme?
Do all poems need them?
Must I obey rules and formulas
and stick to a code?
What about stanzas, syllables,
punctuation, presentation?
Can the number of lines
accord with the inspiration
or must there be dogmas
to govern its expression?
If I take it too seriously
I lose all impulsion
and the words which should sing
lie flat on the floor
Janet Aitch Jul 2019
Climb any mountain
Enjoy the space
the fair views
in every direction

Wait a while
savour the pleasure
You've started a trend
Everyone wants to do it
Janet Aitch Mar 2020
The poetry group
tried it this morning
without much success
Janet Aitch Mar 2020
Travel company cancelled
Good!
I can choose a new holiday
Janet Aitch Dec 2020
Triangle player
breathes esoteric wording
his ping skin tingling
Janet Aitch Oct 2018
'Message send failed'
Heads together
Try again
'Message sent '
Cheers!
Janet Aitch Jan 2019
The Technological Revolution
means
Everyone
Always
One step behind mastery
Janet Aitch Jul 2018
"I do tree root climbing"
"I fell from a hedge"
Janet Aitch Oct 2020
Antiques shops
fascinate, absorb the eye
and the imagination
Who may have owned
this intricately worked
elaborate confection of silver
set with jewels?
Did a miner fashion it
for a lover or a wife?
Did the longing for warmth of home
spill over into craftsmanship
so delicate it looks
as though a speck of dust
would disarray it?

I wonder
Janet Aitch Apr 2019
Sun in my eyes
Can't see to write
Relax!
Guilt-free
Janet Aitch Nov 2020
If Philosophy is a search
for the meaning of life
the first step to consider
is whether one is alive
Janet Aitch Dec 2019
As someone approached,
the pigeon I was watching
skeedaddled quickly
Janet Aitch Sep 2019
Poetic proclivities
or a taste for rhyme
won't make a poet
all of the time

But discussing the subject
revising the plan
makes a prize-winner
from an also-ran
Janet Aitch Nov 2018
"I've come unarmed"
I said
"There's a poem"
he said
Janet Aitch Nov 2018
Two things we know
about Janet Aitch
She won't have a poem
and she's always late

but the sharing we give
of laughter and pain
give her something to write on
and we have her back again
Janet Aitch May 2019
Group leader's away
Group will play
in verse
or worse
Janet Aitch Sep 2017
Perhaps the cat
catches mice
that might otherwise
bother me
Janet Aitch Sep 2017
Raspberries
glow enticingly
in the hedgerow
Pity about the nettles
Janet Aitch Jun 2019
Mostly I'm prompt
but there are times
I am not
Janet Aitch May 2018
Blue is beautiful
on bluebells and sky
not on moods
Janet Aitch Aug 2019
Rain
Tests your shoes
Wets your feet
Pleases shoe shops
Janet Aitch Jan 2020
Muddy boots again- I tell you
I will not put up with you
eternally tramping on my clean floors
I'm feeling so stressed
that I'm all of a tremble
and if it goes on indefinitely
there will be a kerfuffle
Janet Aitch Mar 2017
Poetry has to rhyme?
No it doesn't
It´s like life
Janet Aitch Apr 2019
I gave up a committee
and got back my me
Janet Aitch Oct 2017
We used to see
red squirrels
tufty-eared
dainty
harmless
rare
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